UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. — Saki Baba routed Monet Chun of Canada 11 and 9 on Sunday to turn into the second Japanese winner in U.S. Ladies’s Newbie historical past.
The 17-year-old Baba received the final six holes, ending the match with a birdie on the par-3 twenty seventh gap at Chambers Bay.
Baba joined 1985 champion Michiko Hattori because the solely Japanese winners.
Baba was one in all 4 amateurs to make the minimize within the U.S. Ladies’s Open at Pine Needles, tying for forty ninth. She shared medalist honors and reached the spherical of 32 within the U.S. Ladies’ Junior at The Membership at Olde Stone.
The 21-year-old Chun received the Canadian Ladies’s Newbie on July 23 to earn a spot within the occasion and the CP Ladies’s Open. She led Michigan to its first Huge Ten championship in April whereas incomes medalist honors.
The margin matched the third-largest in a 36-hole closing within the occasion. Anne Quast Sander set document in 1961, beating Phyllis Preuss 14 and 13. Glenna Collett beat Virginia Van Wie 13 and 12 in 1928, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias routed Clara C. Sherman 11 and 9 in 1946.
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